skadden offer day: comes and goes.

[cynthia]

In case you didn't notice, yesterday was Skadden Offer Day. The firm, responding to changes in OCI schedules at schools across the country, issued all of its offers in one day, regardless of office or campus.

I was skeptical of this tactic, and thought I smelled a ploy to get students to accept other offers, therefore limiting the Skadden pool to accommodate its shrinking summer class sizes.

So how'd Skadden Offer Day go, anyway? The AmLaw Daily reports: 

"...the firm says it is happy with the results. In fact, fewer 2Ls than usual turned down Skadden offers because they had already committed to another firm, says Howard Ellin, Skadden's hiring partner.

The firm managed to just barely escape losing all of the top law school talent to other firms, by carefully scheduling the offer day.

"Industry guidelines mandate that firms give candidates 45 days to decide whether to accept an offer. For an offer to have expired before Skadden Offer Day, a firm would have had to extend the offer in early August--before on-campus interviewing started at most schools."

Well played, Skadden. You scheduled your big holiday early enough to manage to hold on to the T14 kids, but late enough to ditch the more mediocre talent that snapped up the first offer made! You laugh in the face of death, don't you?

Comments

[JMB]

The "top law school talent?" Isn't this like saying that XYZ Private Grade School scooped up all the "top kindergarten talent?"
It's not like we're talking about Goldman Sachs here.

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